So my shiny new iMac runs Snow Leopard, which ships Python compiled in 64-bits mode. This seems to cause some problems, since wxWidgets is based on Carbon and Apple does not seem to want to fully support 64- bits Carbon (see http://groups.google.com/group/wxpython-users/browse_thread/thread/d422356b11a0efe6 ). So, first, before launching Task Coach from a command line, one must issue the following command:
defaults write com.apple.versioner.python Prefer-32-Bit -bool yes Then it somehow works, except that after some time (dunno how much), such simple actions as double-clicking a task or clicking a toolbar icon randomly fail because of a "Can't create window" error in wxWidgets. After a reboot, this seems fixed, but will probably appear again. This looks awfully similar to the problems we ran into when trying to run the unit tests on the Mac OS buildslave. This doesn't seem related to the 64 bits issue since it happens even when using the bundle built on Tiger, which includes a fully 32-bits Python. All that to say that any bug report from a user running Snow Leopard saying something along the lines of "clicking on xxx doesn't do anything" should be answered by "please try to reboot", which is kind of bad but we can't do anything about it :(
